Semiosis by Sue Burke
Recommended by Daniel K:
Like most science fiction, Semiosis is about a lot of things. This gripping story follows successive generations of human colonists on the distant and mysterious planet Pox, while meditating on hope, survival, and human nature. In their search for a better life on war-torn Earth, the colonists slowly begin to realize they aren’t the only intelligent species on the planet. Naturally, this complicates things…